And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from
among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye showed kindness to
all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites
departed from among the Amalekites.

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and
the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and
all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was
vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as
great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the
LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of
rams.
Mark 12:33